Words of AffirmationJOURNEY OF A CATHOLIC NERD WRITER - February 6, 2015 With Valentine's Day coming up next week (and a not so positive message I received this morning), I've been thinking a lot about words of affirmation. According to the 5 Love Languages test, I scored the highest in quality time followed by words of affirmation the first time I took it and words of affirmation followed by quality time the second time around. *shrugs* I enjoy both but I think that it's words that affect me the most. I hate ...http://catholicnerdwriter.blogspot.com/2015/02/words-of-affirmation.html

Dead LettersTHE INN AT THE END OF THE WORLD - November 14, 2014 The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 4th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States But that was long ago. Now we have this .http://thesixbells.blogspot.com/2014/11/dead-letters.html

Thirty-Second Thursday in Ordinary TimeLIVING SCRIPTURE - November 12, 2014 ... What was most important to Paul was to transform from within the human relationship between master and slave, teaching to see the slave as a brother, with the same dignity and greatness in the Lord. Human history would over the centuries and with great difficulty, arrive at a proclamation of the dignity of every human being. The seed had already been sown by Paul in this brief writing and in the Letter to the Galatians, "There is no longer slave, nor free person…because you are all one ...http://livingscripture.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/thirty-second-thursday-in-ordinary-time-3/

Belloc and MussoliniLAODICEA - November 7, 2014 ... going to an obvious destination on foot, here he is meandering round the bottom part of the British coastline in his boat with no special goal. I don't know if this is a kind of metaphor of how he saw his career in youth and in middle age. At one point he reflects on a long, private meeting that he had with Mussolini, newly come to power in Italy (the Nona was published in 1925.) He has a good deal of sympathy with the dictator. They both share a contempt for the parliamentary system, which ...http://exlaodicea.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/belloc-and-mussolini/